> -------scene Penelope--------
>
> so, now as we said we are sending odysseus / oudeis on his journey, on
> his
> first station of fate, we can't have him lying in the arms of his
> loved
> wife at the end.
> than oudeis would have found a happy end and than? but we still have
> some
> pathes to go
>
> so the idea of mischa and me is that with a little change it would be
> as
> follows:
>
> While Odysseus tried to return to Ithaca, suiters of penelope defiled
> his
> house eating up his property.
>
> After twenty years of cruel separation, Penelope stil thinks of
> Odysseus
> with a passion that has not diminished with time.
>
> "The bed shall be for you indeed
> whenever
> you wish in your heart, **when** the gods have made you to arrive at
> your
> well established home and your fatherland."
>
> (cut off: "Let us go to bed,my wife, so that now we may lay down and
> take
> pleasure beneath sweet sleep.")
>
> --> that is the situation, she is waiting for him, we (the oudeis team
> ,
> the gods, the internet?) want to guide him home
>
> so and now this paragraph is still missing:
> what had happened, what will happen with oudeis?
> question is that how this paragraph can switch from odysseus story to
> oudeis story back
>
> I know that this is late :) and I hope that those changes will be
> possible
> for the screen and music part as well, but I really think that they
> are
> necessary.
>
> I will try to think about this last paragraph, and would be more than
> happy
> about input and help. Lee what do you think?
>
Think I understand the dilemma here. The last scene comes from book 23
and contains the resolution. I think that is ok as long as we are clear
with the audience that what we are showing them is like a trailer, a
preview of coming attractions. It contains a condensation of the most
intense imagery of the epic in something of almost lyric intensity. A
small, evocative version of what will be presented later in fuller
detail. That fits with the monologue too.
The change you suggest doesn't work emotionally. Here, in book 23, she
is saying 'whenever you are ready, whenever your heart desires,' but
that not the main issue before he comes back. The main issue is maybe he
is dead. In fact, probably he is dead. Maybe he is still alive and
doesn't want to come back, but that is an issue that Homer knows he has
to deal with for the sake of *the audience*, because the audience knows
that Odysseus is alive but entangled with Calypso and Circe and the
Sirens--all manner of women, in fact. But that is not what is in
Penelope's mind, maybe he's got a new girlfriend. No. She thinks well,
what if he's dead. Maybe he's got a new girlfriend too, like Agamemnon
did. So her emotion is deeper and more uncertain during the beginning
and middle than this speech implies. This speech represents an easing
off of the tension.
I think stay with what is there, but present it as a preview, a
foreshadowing of a larger piece of work.
FWIW
-- Jim Terral South Slocan, BC